TBD Day 3

If the deceased is not liberated by now, the Chönyid Bardo dawns and karmic illusions come to shine. About this time, the deceased can see that an offering of food is being set aside, that the body is being stripped of its garments, that the bed is being cleared; they can hear the weeping and wailing of friends and relatives, and, although they can see them and can hear them calling, they can no longer make themselves heard, and experience this as unpleasant. At this time, sounds, lights, and rays are experienced. These awe, frighten, and terrify, and cause a feeling of fatigue. At this moment, this setting-face-to-face with the Bardo of Reality is to be read: "O nobly-born, yesterday, you experienced the Bardo of the moment of death. Although the Clear Light of Reality appeared to you, you were unable to hold on, and so you have had to come to this point. That which is called death has now come. You are leaving this world, but you are not alone in this; death comes to everyone. Do not cling, in attachment or weakness, to this life. Even though you may cling out of weakness, you don't have the power the power to remain here. By clinging you will gain nothing more than wandering in this illusion. Don't be attached to this world; don't be weak. O nobly-born, when your body and mind were separating, you must have experienced a glimpse of the Pure Truth, subtle, sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious, and radiantly awesome, in appearance like a mirage moving across a landscape in spring-time in one continuous stream of vibrations. Don't be daunted by it, nor terrified, nor awed. That is the radiance of your own true nature. Recognize it! From the midst of that radiance, the natural sound of Reality, reverberating like a thousand thunders simultaneously sounding, will come. That is the natural sound of your own real self. Don't be daunted by it, nor terrified, nor awed. The body which you now have is called the thought-body of propensities. Since you no longer have a material body of flesh and blood, whatever appears—sounds, lights, or rays—are unable to harm you: you are incapable of dying.